First, read this hard hitting piece of journalism about giant sea monsters that made bone puzzles and left no trace of their existence behind. Except for the bone puzzles. And I'm being sarcastic.
My response is something along the lines of this:
My response is something along the lines of this:
Taphonomic studies have already been completed for this site, and even though there may not be an obvious answer to the arrangement of skeletal elements (although I'm hardy surprised that the vertebrae have been preserved in a row, gosh how unlike vertebrae is that!?), it doesn't mean that imaginary 'kraken' taxa should be created to fit the bill. I think it's embarrassing to all other palaeontologists that this 'palaeontologist' is spouting pseudoscience in the guise of true scientific research.
